1st Edition

Collaborative Research Methods in the Arctic Experiences from Greenland

Edited By Anne Merrild Hansen, Carina Ren Copyright 2021
174 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book addresses the growing demand for collaborative and reflexive scholarly engagement in the Arctic directed at providing relevant insights to tackle local challenges of arctic communities. It examines how arctic research can come to matter in new ways by combining methods and engagement in the field of inquiry in new and meaningful ways.   Research informs decisions affecting the futures... Read more

Foreword  
Henrik Halkier

1. Collaborative Research Methods in the Arctic – Why and How?  
Anne Merrild Hansen & Carina Ren  

Part 1: New Positionalities and Reflections in Research  

2. Telling the Good Story: A Conversation With Minik Rosing on Research Collaboration and Research in Greenland
Anne Merrild Hansen

3. Participatory Principles in Arctic Health Research 
Stig Andersen 

4. Arctic Auto-Ethnography: Unsettling Colonial Research Relations
Naja Dyrendom Graugaard 

Part 2: Case Examples  

5. Industrial Development in Nuuk and Sermersooq: Empowerment Through Action Research
Allan Næs Gjerding and Ina Drejer  

6. Collaboration to Secure Relevance and Quality in a Study of EIA Practise in Extractive Industries in the Arctic 
Sanne Vammen Larsen & Anne Merrild Hansen  

7. Critical Proximity in Arctic Research: Reflections from the Arctic Winter Games 2016 
Carina Ren & Robert C. Thomsen  

8. Life Mapping: A Collaborative Approach to Tourism Collaboration in Greenland
Daniela Chimirri 

Part 3: Knowledge Collaboration Beyond Research 

9. Development of Jurisprudence Research Through Engagement of Students 
Louise Faber   

10. Recruiting and Retaining Labour in Greenland – A PhD Project in Close Cooperation With Local Stakeholders 
Verena Huppert   

11. Co-Creating Knowledge for and With the Arctic: Future Avenues
Carina Ren & Anne Merrild Hansen  

Index

Biography

Anne Merrild Hansen is professor in planning and impact assessment in the Arctic at Aalborg University and the head of the Research Platform AAU Arctic at Aalborg University. Her research is focused on social impact assessment in relation to extractive industries in the Arctic.

Carina Ren is associate professor at the Centre for Innovation and Research in Culture and Living in the Arctic at Aalborg University and the platform coordinator of AAU Arctic. Carina researches connections between tourism and other fields of the social through cultural innovation, knowledge collaboration and capacity building.